psychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoBluesky federation goes livebsky.socialexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up128cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up128external-linkBluesky federation goes livebsky.socialpsychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoyeah i was just reading… the answer is ‘no’, youre either running bluesky or not. youre not building lemmysky and federating, for example. so what good is the protocol if you can only use their client server?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoConsidering the alternative is a bunch of Bluesky people commenting on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
minus-squareFlowVoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months agoYou can self-host an instance, which will federate with every other instance. Unlike Mastodon, an instance admin cannot block other instances. So blocking and moderation occurs more commonly at the user level. In a sense, it has even more in common with email than ActivityPub does.
yeah i was just reading… the answer is ‘no’, youre either running bluesky or not.
youre not building lemmysky and federating, for example.
so what good is the protocol if you can only use their
clientserver?Considering the alternative is a bunch of Bluesky people commenting on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
You can self-host an instance, which will federate with every other instance.
Unlike Mastodon, an instance admin cannot block other instances. So blocking and moderation occurs more commonly at the user level. In a sense, it has even more in common with email than ActivityPub does.